Suzanne Pleshette was an American theatre, film, television, and voice actress. She started her career in the theatre and began appearing in films in the late 1950s. She appeared in prominent films such as Rome Adventure and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. Later appeared in various television productions, often in guest roles, and played Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show from 1972 until 1978.
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Suzanne Pleshette was an American theatre, film, television, and voice actress. She started her career in the theatre and began appearing in films in the late 1950s. She appeared in prominent films such as Rome Adventure and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. She later appeared in various television productions, often in guest roles, and played Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show from 1972 until 1978. She continued acting until 2004, which was four years before her death at age 70. Her parents were Jewish, the children of emigrants from Russia and Austria-Hungary. Her father was a stage manager, manager of the Paramount Theater in New York City, and, later, a network executive. Her mother was a dancer and artist who performed under the stage name Geraldine Rivers. She was nominated twice for the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in The Name of the Game.
She provided the voices of Yubaba and Zeniba in the English dub of Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning film Spirited Away and the voice of Zira in Disney’s The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride and sang the song “My Lullaby’”. Her first screen role was in the episode ‘Night Rescue’ of the CBS adventuredrama television series Harbormaster, starring Barry Sullivan and Paul Burke. She worked with Steve McQueen in the 1966 western drama film Nevada Smith, was nominated for a Laurel Award for her starring performance in the comedy If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium opposite Ian McShane, and co-starred with James Garner in a pair of films, the drama Mister Buddwing and the western comedy Support Your Local Gunfighter. She starred in a number of Walt Disney family films, most notably in The Shaggy D. A. . She was the lead actress in Hot Stuff and Oh, God! Book II.
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